Here's a quick game. What do these four things all have in common: creeps, '70s porn stars, women who've given up, and Mumford and Sons. The answer? A mustache—or at least the stereotypical judgements associated with one. And names you might've been called, in jest, all Movember long while you've been cultivating your 'stache to raise some dough for men's health issues.

But, alas, maybe not. Results are just in from a new survey regarding America's attitudes towards mustaches in the workplace, as conducted by the non-profit American Mustache Institute (no we're not making that up) and Wahl clippers. As it turns out, the facial hair style carries with it more clichés than you might suppose.

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For example: You also look like a boozer. Sixty-nine percent of people in the survey correlated a mustache with a guy who drinks excessively. Claim it or don't, but even more people think that lip brow makes you a functioning user—82% of respondents think of the mustachioed as hard workers with 73% saying they're hard partiers. Thus, those with below the nose facial hair are seen as 'work hard, play hard' kinda guys.

On the bright side, that face foliage makes you look well put together, with 60% saying that they perceived guys with mustaches as being "persistently well groomed." That could be code for "porn star," but we're going to go with it being a wider cultural shift in workplace perceptions leaning towards the professional nature of men with mustaches, where now 92% of people think it's appropriate to own a mustache and have a job at the same time.

That could have something to do with the fact that 71% of Americans say that at least once a week they work with a man or woman who is the proud owner of a mustache. Yup—women, and that's no joke, we're just reading the results people. (There was no gender breakdown).

A clear majority, 93% of people said they'd recommend a job opening to a friend whose growing a mustache. The number might reflect the politeness of those taking the survey more than their perceptions, but still, it's heart-warming to know that so many people would stick their noses out for those with sub-nasal hair growth.

But the most telling result is here: only 30% of the survey's respondents say they know a person in a supervising position who has any facial hair at all, mustache or not. A finding that helps us sum up the state of mustache 'merica nicely—if you have a mustache, the country wants to work with you, party with you, and have sex with you, but they certainly don't want to work for you. Some stereotypes will never die.